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People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy ( Read more... )

“And besides, cities are turning into one single city, a single endless city where the differences which once characterized each of them are disappearing. This idea, which runs through my book Invisible Cities, came to me from the way that many of us now live: we continually move from one airport to another, to enjoy a life that is almost identical ( Read more... )

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Yes. I just had to write about it soon as I got home. I got Sakimoto Hitoshi' and Sakamoto Hideki's autographs! Gasp. Let me say two things that fans will bash me up for. One, I was half-hoping (HALF) that there was not going to be an autograph session. Two, I wasn't so happy about the autographs themselves as I was about the session itself.

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“Words and stories are cheap now. We type them into our handy computers, do some cutting and pasting and run a spell-check, and, pow, a story. They do not have the importance of the stories that were only told in the dark of a winter’s moon; or the stories that were handwritten, word by copperplate word, on a table in the corner of the parlor; or ( Read more... )

(edit: I forgot to mention that I found this meme on book_memes1. Take five books off your bookshelf ( Read more... )

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My favourite song from Disney's Tarzan. :*)

From Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities:

No city is more inclined than Eusapia to enjoy life and flee care. And to make the leap from life to death less abrupt, the inhabitants have constructed an identical copy of their city, underground. All corpses, dried in such a way that their skin remains sheathed in yellow skin, are carried down there, to ( Read more... )